Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler
Co-published with Rolling Stone. A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines.
Is This the End of Prison Phone Fees?
Co-published with Mother Jones. How a group of activists took on the telecom industry—and won.
How I Became A Modern Bootlegger
Co-published with Literary Hub. “Even after 25 years in journalism, I never knew humanity the way I did working at a strip club and moving product.”
Black and Blue
Co-published with The Nib. In Lexington, Kentucky, a police officer did the unthinkable – at least to his fellow cops.
The Border Patrol’s Fearless 5%
Co-published with Reveal. Female agents are so rare in the U.S. Border Patrol that they have their own nickname: the Fearless 5%. It’s meant as a badge of honor, but the title is a bold admission of the
Salt Lake and Other Utah Cities Used Most of a $10 Million Homeless Services Fund to Hire Cops
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. What does it mean to have police "dedicated to homeless response"?
Why Did a Man Starve to Death in an Arkansas Jail?
Co-published with Truthdig. It was a failure of the system because he shouldn't have even been there.
The Story of Baby O—and the Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty
Co-published with The Nation. Baby O’s case is at the center of a lawsuit to bring down the Indian Child Welfare Act. But far from proving ICWA should be overturned, it shows why the law is necessary.
Clean Slates
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. How to get an eviction off your record in Utah.
Alabama Takes From the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Co-published with The New York Times. Fines and fees trap people in a kind of penury from which they may never escape.
Easy Money: How Counties Are Funneling Covid Relief Funds Into New Jails
Co-published with The Nation. Counties aren’t supposed to use Covid funds to build jails and prisons—but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to do it anyway.
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating ‘Copaganda’
Co-published with Jacobin. Police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.”